refreshing

Its been a long time since I have gotten to mess around with computers. I'll have to admit I was beginning to get a bit burned out, with applications not working and stuff...and how with linux, it seems like the applications you need are always scattered around, but I think I finally got some good breakthroughs today, and its good to celebrate those.

Found a new media player that beats the crap out of amarok, exaile.. it allready has shoutcast streams built in, as well as it fetches album art automatically. but its just like it in other ways, plus its on GTK, so it should be a tad bit faster in gnome

I've simplified the user interface so that it has much less clutter on it.. somehow icons in my way made me very mad...now the gui practically has nothing, mainly driven by keyboard shortcuts. I probably need to think through those a bit better...

Windows was fun to work with today.... I replaced my moms video card in the basement, put windows on her computer and set it up with itunes and multiple accounts with a vnc backend to login to.

Its sweet... not to mention, I gave her that usb wireless adapter. so now I'm taking the router upstairs. works because my laptop's pcmcia port got jacked up.. pretty lame

But it is okay... I am getting my webserver set up soon, that will be great. I've got time to play video games, kick back, read books, pray, sleep... I'm free for a change. And its marvelous. Exaile Rocks, Windows isn't all that booring, especially when you try to make it do things it wasn't designed for. But linux is more fun than all...

So soon, i've got a webserver/shell server / whatever I want.. .its amazing... I'm going to have fun with that.